The part of my life outside of school that contributed most to my academic success was the group of friends that I made during my sophomore year of high school and that I still have today and my parents which pushed me to stay on top of my work. Before I joined my high school’s swim team I was an average student that received good grades in intermediate level classes and never bothered to apply myself in classes other than science classes and because of this my GPA suffered due to me trying to take AP classes that had a workload I was not prepared for. The encouragement of my friends to take these AP classes and their help in study groups as well as my parent’s pushing to keep a busy schedule helped me prepare for rigorous college work.
As I have already explained before in my paper about my high school influences, the friends I had in high school were in more advanced classes than I was and it made me feel bad about myself that I wasn’t as intelligent as them. Because of this notion of being inferior and left out of the loop of their talks about classes I enrolled in classes that they would enrolled in which included Honors and AP classes. Initially the large increase in workload and studying was a challenge for me because I was not used to it however over my friends were able to help me learn better study habits and how to be an overall more productive student. I believe that if they didn’t help me in high school I wouldn’t have been prepared for classes in college and would have struggled through my first courses.
My parents did contribute to my overall work ethic however I do not believe they had as large of an effect as my own conscious decision to do as well as my friends did. However when I think about it I see that they really did help me by encouraging me to keep a full schedule and participate in intermural sports. They were willing to bring me to any extracurricular activities I needed to go to and were supportive of me by showing up to swim meets and encouraging me through my classes.
My friends and my parents did help me to develop academically. My friends made me push myself to be like them and take the harder classes that they did and my parents always encouraged me to do better in everything that I do. The combination of my family and friends helped me to become who I am academically and to become the person I am today.
As I have already explained before in my paper about my high school influences, the friends I had in high school were in more advanced classes than I was and it made me feel bad about myself that I wasn’t as intelligent as them. Because of this notion of being inferior and left out of the loop of their talks about classes I enrolled in classes that they would enrolled in which included Honors and AP classes. Initially the large increase in workload and studying was a challenge for me because I was not used to it however over my friends were able to help me learn better study habits and how to be an overall more productive student. I believe that if they didn’t help me in high school I wouldn’t have been prepared for classes in college and would have struggled through my first courses.
My parents did contribute to my overall work ethic however I do not believe they had as large of an effect as my own conscious decision to do as well as my friends did. However when I think about it I see that they really did help me by encouraging me to keep a full schedule and participate in intermural sports. They were willing to bring me to any extracurricular activities I needed to go to and were supportive of me by showing up to swim meets and encouraging me through my classes.
My friends and my parents did help me to develop academically. My friends made me push myself to be like them and take the harder classes that they did and my parents always encouraged me to do better in everything that I do. The combination of my family and friends helped me to become who I am academically and to become the person I am today.